On 04/02/13 15:59, Colin Law wrote:
On 4 February 2013 15:48, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote:
Now it has Ubuntu installed, it simply won't boot from
the USB stick, no matter how much I juggle the boot order around. Don't ask
me why, it just won't.
What you have installed on the disk will not affect whether it will
boot from USB, it should boot before it even looks at what is on the
disk. Possibly the stick is messed up. Try putting the iso on a DVD
and boot off that, or put the image on a different stick. It took me
a little time to work out why wireless did not work on my new laptop
until I realised that I had to switch it on with a function key. Are
you sure it was not something like that for you, but now you have
messed up the drivers so that it now shows unclaimed rather than
disabled, which is what it would show if it just needed switching on?
You need to boot the live image to find out. You may just be wasting
your time otherwise.
Colin
That was quite interesting. I looked at the boot order settings on the
Compaq again, and the resident OS on the hard disk appeared to be ahead
of the USB stick, so I changed that. I only have one USB stick, but I
reinstalled Ubuntu 12.10 on it, using the Lenovo, and plugged it into
the Compaq. I was able to bring up a "try Ubuntu without installing"
condition on the Compaq. I know it was the genuine article because all
the GUI settings, eg launchers, background, etc, were default, as is
usual during new installation. My own personal GUI settings are quite
different. So, inside this "try Ubuntu without installing" condition, I
checked the Network Controller using the sudo lshw -C network
instruction, which I now know by heart. And it was still unclaimed.
There are no hardware switches for the wireless network known to me,
though there is a hardware switch for Bluetooth (the f12 button).
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